Tarek Amer, a psychology postdoctoral research fellow at Columbia University, says that although our ability to focus our attention on specific things worsens as we age, older adults are able to retain broad swaths of information better than younger people.
As we get older, we become more easily distracted, but it isn't always a disadvantage, according to researchers.
So I know that you've been looking, in your own research, at concentration and memory formation. So what exactly are you studying? Could you paint me a picture of what that would look like, being presented with relevant and not relevant information? After they perform the task on the pictures, we give them a memory task on the words that they supposedly should have ignored in the first task. And what we see is when we test memory for these words, older adults have better memory relative to younger adults.
Once it's actually time for you to drive home, you might be able to remember that, "Oh I actually heard on the news that I should avoid this road or something like that."
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